On top of this, the “Dogs of the Dow” strategy has an interesting cyclical profile, and Japanese stocks (EWJ) do too. Look for a contrarian low point in a few months.

Where can you find all these projections so you can make money or save money, specifically the value of your 401K? Just for this month only I’ve made my Dow forecast newsletter available for free. You can download it at

MarketTimingResearch.com/bonus/DJIA-March-April-2011.pdf

Very soon the new book on Hercules is coming for the final chapters are being completed. I am sure this new book will rock the market because the contents include some of the firsts of their kind in print, especially about certain stages of Taoist cultivation, Tibetan Vajrayana, Biblical Jewish cultivation, Egyptian cultivation schools, the Indian Nath yoga tradition and so on which have never been disclosed. Secrets, BIG secrets until now …

Basically, here’s what you need to know about the path of spiritual cultivation that comes through in the book, which is a good synopsis of the path in general. You should already know this, but I have collapsed it down to simplicity, just as in the Hercules book.

All genuine religions, spiritual schools and traditions employ a variety of cultivation practices, or meditation methods, which are designed to help you achieve a quiet mind. This is the basic beginner’s spiritual path so a lot of spiritual practices help you do this. Because thoughts die down from practicing these techniques, this resulting mental quiet or silence is called peacefulness, cessation, calming, stopping, purity, emptiness, empty mind or any number of other pertinent synonyms. Your mind empties of loud, busy thoughts and so you experience peace.

When the mind quiets, proper spiritual practice is that you must remain aware (rather than try to suppress thoughts from arising) and that awareness practice is called witnessing, observing, contemplating, knowing, prajna, introspection, awareness and so on. As the mind quiets, you continue to watch the mental scenarios of the mind but without attaching to them. This is cessation-witnessing practice, also known as mindfulness, rememberance or “vipassana.” The two principles of cessation and witnessing are inherent in all spiritual practices. ALL spiritual practices. The important thing is that you learn how to let go of thoughts, called detachment, in order that wandering thoughts (the monkey mind) dies down so that the stage of cessation finally arrives. That’s why you practice meditation.

Because the gradual calming of your mind means you are letting go of thoughts (which is why they are able to die down in the first place), and because chi and consciousness (thoughts) are linked, as you let go of thought attachments you are also letting go of clinging to the chi in your body. Normally you’re pushing your chi around all the time, especially in your head, but with meditation you learn to let go of this consciousness-chi-body connection. You learn how to let it function without interference, which is what happens in a perfectly healthy body.

Chi and thoughts are linked; by letting go of thoughts you are not interfering with your chi flow anymore. Attaching to the chi of your body and physical energy sensations is something you are always subconsciously doing but you don’t realize it because you are so used to the habit. From countless lives you are used to this habit, so it takes time to break it. Once you learn how to truly let go and be free, with nothing pulling your chi this way or that way anymore because you have learned how to let go of thoughts, the real chi of the body will start to arise and its natural circulation will start to resume. Thus it is said, “From the stillness of yin (quiet), yang will arise.”

That yang chi is called kundalini, which is the real chi of the body as opposed to the wind chi that people are always playing with as they practice most spiritual techniques. When the yang chi of the body finally arises, it will open up your chi channels and chakras naturally. There is nothing you need to do to prompt this other than cultivate an empty, non-clinging mind. There is nothing you need to know other than how to be quiet and let go to experience the peace. Your outer physical body, due to the yang chi resultantly arising, will experience transformational phenomena as this happens called spiritual “gong-fu.”

Your inner subtle chi body will also transform and purify the more you let go of thoughts and let your mind quiet. Your chi will purify as well, and thus your emotions and habit energies. Your physical and energetic bodies will start purifying because you are finally letting go of clinging to your chi, and so it will revert to its natural circulation – the way it is supposed to flow in a perfectly healthy individual before thought attachments warp it this way or that. Thoughts are supposed to come up all the time – you aren’t supposed to suppress them – but you should not cling to them.

The transformation of your body that results from your ascending chi results in a purification of your physical nature, but because chi and consciousness are linked, your mind will reach a higher stage of purity (emptiness) as well. So a quiet empty mind leads to your chi arising, your chi arising leads to the purification of your chi, channels and chakras, that purification leads to a greater degree of mental purity or emptiness, and the two components body and mind reach ever increasing levels of purity until eventually from that purified foundation one can achieve samadhi.

All from just learning how to let go…

The forthcoming Little Book of Hercules explains all the chi and body phenomena that happen along the beginnings of this process … what we must call “beginner’s spiritual gong-fu” for attaining the Reward body, or sambhogakaya. You’ll find out that the ancient mystery schools of the west knew as many of these phenomena as the eastern schools, but while the evidence is right before your eyes you’ve probably missed it. This new book will reveal it.

Now because of samadhi, a wise person who has the right teachings (and thus view) can eventually detach from consciousness to realize the clear base of awareness that is always present with being or existence. But since that clear awareness is just a function of the original nature, recognizing that pristine empty awareness that knows is not full enlightenment yet. What gives birth to that awareness is the original nature or fundamental essence, God, Allah, Brahman, or whatever your wish to call the true self. No one really knows how to describe It, so it is also called the Unknown One. When one realizes that original fundamental ground nature or essence, one becomes enlightened, or realizes their true self. Hence the term “self-realization.”

In the universe we go for countless lives, countless eons searching for everything but our true self. When beings find their true self, they finally become spiritually free, liberated, saved. It all starts with spiritual cultivation. While religion will not lead you to this, spiritual practice will and the proper sort of spiritual practice, and stage of gong-fu you will resultantly pass though as you make progress on this hero’s journey will all be revealed in the Little Book of Hercules when it soon comes out.

As to our latest paperback release on Amazon.com, Spiritual Paths and Their Meditation Techniques, the price has risen in December as I said it would but you can still order it in time for Christmas: http://amzn.to/cuF1vE . A great book to teach you what you should be doing and where you should NOT BE WASTING YOU TIME in spiritual practice. This will save you years of effort and I wish I had the information when I get started. Like all our books, we speak directly with no nonsense and try to put in as much information as possible so that just one of our volumes is the equivalent of reading dozens of other books out there.

http://amzn.to/cuF1vE

Many wrote to thank me about the information from John Thomas, the hedge fund trader and his synopsis of world trends. I already made money on his advise, and my friends as well, and it came from his email newsletter which is free. Enlightenment is not just about spiritual practice but worldy wisdom… understanding the world and how to skillfully deal with the world. Many enlightened masters were doctors, some were politicians, some businessmen, some martial artists, some cooks and many other occupations, too. They weren’t just all monks or nuns. If a king found a man of Tao in his kingdom he would try to employ him as a minister because they were easily competent in all things.

The universe is endless and you must start learning about all dharmas if they can help others and yourself. Start here: http://bit.ly/fxf4Ck Pass to friends. As I’ve been writing elsewhere, if America does not invent something new and big and does so fast, job declines will continue and there’s nothing all the rah-rah patriotism can do about it. As Wikileaks proves, and as I try to point out all the time,  what the government says to the public is different from the reality of the way things really are. Without jobs, which we’ve offshored, we’re cooked compared to emerging markets competitors and lower standards of living are here to stay. To protect your income and retirement, watch these videos, learn this information (he’ll have several in series, such as a recent one on currencies so you know where to put your monies in your IRA via ETFs):

http://bit.ly/fxf4Ck

Speaking of diverse things, along these lines of the fact you should study many disciplines, we hope to release a new book on combining spiritual parenting with practical education, a book on small business marketing, multi-generational income and several other non-fiction titles next year. More when that happens …

And lastly, please take the time to avail yourself of a personalized Karma Calculator reading of the upcoming events for 2011, 2012, and 2013 in your life before the special December discount ends. It’s just $50 for several years and I often throw in more years beyond the special deal listed. But come January 1 the special is finally over as previously stated. This is a great Christmas gift for yourself or someone else (you just need the birth time, birth date and birth location) and will help you prepare for the years ahead. It’s dirt cheap compared to the $250 normally charged for just one year from a Vedic or Chinese astrologer. Someone wisely told me that if you want to mantra to change your fortune this will tell you what to mantra about.

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You can find out more about his style and readings by investigating westernsiderealastrology.com

His other contact information, found on his site:

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Here’s the history of how she developed her abilities — note that she became blind, which is one of the five possibilities for someone to be able to predict the future:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/notes-from-history-baba-vanga/id_13025/catid_3

Here are Baba Vanga’s upcoming predictions for the world, including the dire November 2010:

http://russianfun.net/interesting-galleries/vanga-predictions-for-this-world/

2010 (Nov) – 2014 (Oct) – Nuclear and Chemical War
2014 – Most people have skin problems
2018 – China becomes the new world power
2033 – Melting of polar ice caps and world oceans rise

You can study how these tally with Mother Shipton’s prophecies.

http://www.crystalinks.com/shipton.html

Frankly, I always tell people that you cannot depend on prophecies. They are very changeable, or often just false from the start. Many people feel they can predict the future or see it at low stages of cultivation, and it’s just false.

A big problem today is that many people crack open the Old Testament or even Revelations and try to say XYZ is going to happen, but who can really decipher those texts? People without any cultivation attainments don’t even know the regular cultivation meaning inherent in the Bible, so they have no quality to even try to begin an interpretation. Even if the Bible does have prohpecy, that type is very changeable.  Usually you just have wishful thinking on people’s parts when they read this stuff  … and some  even take steps in policy to try to make the  things they think it says happen, thinking it’s the word of God. Irresponsible! The karma that comes to us, whatever it turns out to be, is made by us, not God . If you try to make destruction happen, rather than work in the opposite direction, what type of crazy notions are you following?

Anyway, fun reading. It’s a lazy day and someone sent this to me, so take a break and have some fun.

First, a country should act in order to preserve itself. This is called acting for survival. The island exporting nation Japan has  different survival strategies than Israel, which uses strategies different from Ethiopia, China, France, Mexico or a Vanatu, India or Saudi Arabia. Each country must seek  to maintain itself and influence other countries for its own interests, which they all do though in means helpful or detrimental to their long term interests. All nations do this; Britain was a past champion of being able to influence and intervene (some would say interfere) in nations for its own interests of maintaining Empire. The question to be asked by strategist is "how will these actions threaten my survival in the short run or long run? Will they possibly threaten our survival through direct or indirect consequences, in the short run or long run, as we are most prone to simplistic straight line thinking and need to broaden our horizons. Is this the BEST strategy for our survival ?"

Frankly, the US in recent years has done a terrible job at examining these questions because  many of its geo-political actions and interventions have backfired, and if institued with long term survival in mind, show a nation that has imperiled itself rather than strengthened itself.

If survival is not an issue, the country’s leaders must consider whether its actions will,  in both the short run and long run, buttress or weaken its current and future prosperity. The underlying goal is called "maintaining a state of auspiciousness" and is most often achieved by a achieving a balancing of forces (a "golden mean" so to speak) in moderation over a prolonged period of time. In neither economic nor military nor social spheres should you let the nation progress to an extreme. "hubris" — the great error of the Persian Empire — should not be allowed.

In other words, statesmen should ask "will the actions we take or are currently permitting further our goal of ascension in the world, or weaken it through direct or indirect consequences?" There is definite blowback, or cause and effect, for every action taken, and we must consider  the full scope, measure and width of blowback consequences to our hopeful march forward. Obviously this has not been done.

What must not be done is let corporations, which are purely money seeking ventures, call the shots or influence the shots with preponderance. Corporations, for profit, will readily gut a country without a second thought, and only wise legislation can prevent this.  Furthermore, they often profit from wars, which are then seen as desired vehicles of profit for their goods and services, which provides an underlying motivation for them not to make influential moves that would help pace the way for peace and stability in troubled times. Wars are the biggest stimulators of consumption, but no populace benefits by them. Only the powerful at the head of strong banking and defense interests really benefit from military ventures that destroy property, lives and socieities. History has shown this over and over again…countless books commenting upon this have been written.

In capitalism, consumption is driven by advertising to stoke demand, consumer debt to make it possible, and war to make it necessary. Presently America has reached the limits of the capabilities of debt to stimulate production and consumption. Consumerism, or the stoking of demand by advertising and a materialistic ethos, does not have an unlimited lifespan just as capitalism does not have a  guaranteed ticket to ever increasing returns (profits increasing quarter by quarter) unless new markets are constantly opened and resources made available, sometimes by force if necessary. Such is the hidden basis of capitalism’s history, whether spoken of openly or not. The inherent idea is that there must always be growth, but in actuality, the economic models do not rule out a zero growth or low growth environment, which is something that might have to be considered in the next fifty years as even China and the other former Communist regimes reach saturation.  As it is, in most developed countries the consumer markets are replacement markets (eevryone has a car, tv, telephone), except for innovations.

When a government falls into the hands of large profit seeking interests or listens to them too much, thinking their interests are what is best for the people, it makes a big mistake and yet we have drifted into this teritory over the last 30 years because of PACS and the merging of economic thinking by the Democratic and Republican parties.  Corporations are not synonomous with the economy, yet they are readily identified by politicians seeking election donations whereas the great mass of the public is not usually turned into an identifiable voice with a single cash wallet. As a sage once said, "the best bank is to store money amongst the people," not the corporations, yet the rise of electorial politics has caused us to forget this thinking that the benefit of the corporations, and not the working people is what matters. It is too bad that our statesmen do not read economist Michael Hudson who often paints a clear pictue of where we are.

Consider that if one is guided by profits alone, what actions would not be undertaken to further gain? Humanity, ethics, society, culture all go out the window in pursuit of the almighty dollar and profit. That is why I often bring up the commentary by the Grand Historian of China when reading Mencius:

As the Grand Historian was reading Mencius, he unconsciously put the book down and sighed when he came to the place where King Hui of Liang asked Mencius, ‘How will you profit my country?’ The historian said, ‘Ah, profit is truly the beginning of disorder. That is why Confucius seldom spoke of profit, always shoring up the source.’ The source is the beginning. Whether it is found among the upper classes or the lower classes, the degeneracy of lust for profit is basically the same. When those in public office profit unfairly, then the law is disordered. When those in the private sector profit by deception, then business is disordered. When business is disorderly, people are contentious and dissatisfied; when law is disorderly, the citizenry is resentful and disobedient. This is how people get to be so rebellious and belligerent that they don’t care if they die. Is this not a demonstration of how, ‘Profit is truly the beginning of disorder’? The sages and saints were deeply cautious and aloof from profit, giving honor and precedence to humanity and justice. But in later times there were still those who deceived each other in hopes of profit; what limit is there to those who destroy morality and ruin education? How much the more serious is the problem when the path of adventurous profiteering is publicly espoused and pursued; under these conditions, how could we hope for the world’s morals and customs to be upright, and not be thin and weak? 

The Story of Chinese Zen, by Nan Huai-Chin, (Charles E. Tuttle Company, Vermont, 1985), p. 205-206.

 

 
What is the passage Szuma Chien is referring to? It is from the very opening of the book of Mencius, which starts out with a conversation between Mencius and the King Hui of Liang, who said,

‘Sir, … You have come all this distance, thinking nothing of a thousand li. You must surely have some way of profiting my state?’
 ’Your majesty,’ answered Mencius, ‘What is the point of mentioning the word "profit"? All that matters is that there should be benevolence and rightness. If Your Majesty says, "How can I profit my state?" and the Counselors say, "How can I profit my family?" and the Gentlemen and Commoners say, "How can I profit my person?" then those above and those below will be trying to profit at the expense of one another and the state will be imperiled. When regicide is committed in a state of ten thousand chariots, it is certain to be by a vassal with a thousand chariots, and when it is committed in a state of a thousand chariots, it is certain to be by a vassal with a hundred chariots. A share of a thousand in ten thousand or a hundred in a thousand is by no means insignificant, yet if profit is put before rightness, there is no satisfaction short of total usurpation. No benevolent man ever abandons his parents, and no dutiful man ever puts his prince last. Perhaps you will now endorse what I have said, "All that matters is that there should be benevolence and rightness. What is the point of mentioning the word ‘profit’?"’

 Mencius, Volume One, transl. by D. C. Lau, (The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1984), p. 3

These are things you should consider when you examine the world trend of events today and try to decipher who is pulling the strings, or pulling for outcomes in certain directions. In the last 60 years a certain style of capitalism and world economic system has developed, but the system has reached a turning point that marks its end and a new one is slowly developing. But what will its shape be?

I recall several small quotes from Understanding This Chinese Generation that touch the periphery of these issues but enough to make their review worthwhile:

Throughout the cultural history of mankind our conceptions of morality have been governed by the religious principles of sin and retribution; from this our educational norms and modes of thought have taken shape, maintaining the social order for the last three millennium. With the rise of the modern culture of materialism and the consequent rapid development of commerce and industry, our view of morality has gradually fallen victim to an ideology of economic valuation that attaches a price tag to all things.

…

This is how danger is transformed into security, and the nation’s fears are put to rest. National salvation follows from the application of talent and wisdom, and the cultivation of talent and wisdom is the windmill which harnesses the “kinetic energy” of the winds of profound thought and learning. Based on the concepts of “rethinking the old to understand the new” and “examining the past to master the future,” we must map the recent historical evolution of our present approach to national salvation. With this in hand, the causes and effects of the complex confusion before us will be revealed and we can begin to understand how to productively direct our efforts in the perilous days ahead.

…

Today, universal education and the boundaries of knowledge grow with each passing day at a rate unheard of more than thirty years ago. Yet, the dedication and spiritual “zeal” of our youth to the ideals of the “movement for national renaissance” cannot compare to that of the generation before them. As we pattern ourselves on the advances of material civilization, we trade in our inhibitions and self-control for the good life, seeking refuge in its promised future of comfort and security. Blindly pursuing the development of commerce and industry, each frantic moment of our precious time is devoted to the attainment of wealth, even as our love of learning and self-realization become impoverished. As a result, we have fostered a social milieu that slavishly stresses the potential of the natural sciences, but treats the exploration of humanist thought as a profligate squandering of time. We continue to avert our eyes from the tragic future certain to result from the grotesque juggernaut of natural science as it feeds off the remains of humanist culture, like a “parasite in the belly of a lion, consuming its mighty host.”
 
If we truly desire to chart a new ideological course for the nation and the world, we must first come to terms with the struggles of modern life and the realization that they are the symptoms of a cultural war. Whether we look to the regions of communist control or the Free World, the industrially advanced First World or the underdeveloped Third World, as in the past we remain lost between the goals of spiritual realization and the necessities of practical existence. In other words, our frustrations are a product of the competition between man’s quest for economic equality in the face of scarcity and his search for spiritual rebirth and peace of mind. In our struggle, two preliminary issues emerge: the unabashed borrowing of capitalist economic devices by modern communism, and our own wrongheaded worship at the altar of materialism. Therefore, other than the current focus of modern youth on learning the skills necessary for everyday life and the struggle for national renaissance, there are two important topics that urgently need to be addressed by the best of this generation:

1. How to shape a new economic philosophy for the benefit of mankind
2. How to synergistically unite and harmonize the cultures of materialism and spirituality.

In the process of working towards this goal, we must proceed with the understanding that our endeavor is an outgrowth of the humanist ideal and a challenge worthy of the best among us, requiring deep reflection, a love of learning, and an inductive approach. Our task is not one of hasty plans and hurried work. While it may be true that there is an ocean of difference between our quixotic goals and the reality of the world around us, “diligent study ultimately leads to success.” Applying this wisdom to the honorable pursuit of humanist ideals will lead us to the inner realm of self-understanding. If, however, we limit our strategies to the goals of personal success and the necessities of individual life, then the historic opportunities now within our reach will be lost. We must seize our present situation and exchange it for an everlasting reality, grab hold of our individuality and transform it into an historical destiny. If we do see to it that these notions take on a renewed sense of worth in the minds of our young, we run the risk of becoming the laughingstock of future generations as we leave a legacy of blank pages to the next sixty years of scholarship.
 

I’ve used translators, helped coordinate translation efforts or made donations  for the translation of   all sorts of spiritual books — Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu and so forth. So I know how difficult it is to get things translated. Most of my own progress has been because I’ve relied on the translated texts of countless traditions to help piece things together. If a book in English can help someone increase their level of wisdom or gong-fu, then I’m all for it. If it can be trasnlated into another language for another culture, I’m for that too, especially if it can be done ont he cheap (because I know how expensive it is). You see,  I’m very careful how I spend my money when it comes to charitable donations.

For instance, I would never give to the American Cancer Society because it spends hardly a cent of its budget on cancer prevention education when they flat out admit that diet is the major role in cancer causation. It also has a vested financial interest in chemotherapy, and supports witch hunts against individuals pursuing other cancer cures less than blessed by the billion dollar cancer medical establishment. The American Diabetes Association is another example — diabetes is a blood sugar problem and due to what I consider a conflict of  interests, the doctors of the Association have flat out said there’s no relation between the amount of sugar you eat and getting diabetes. Nonsense….look who’s donating to them. The American Heart Association? Well the cholesterol fixation is a overblown hoax (just as is terrorism), chelation that can help people is attacked, surgery is preferred over dietary changes, and supplement research should be sponsored for how to make them MOST effective rather than trying to rule out anything in one go. Most of the large orthodox organizations (including the Wildlife foundations) seem to grow so large that after a point they lose their way, their focus, their purpose and end up, in my own opinion, doing  very little to  help people except  maintain the status quo of vested financial interests.

That’s just my opinion, so ignore it. But note that  you can see how strict I am. What passes the strict test certainly passes the loose tests of worthwhileness. For years I would watch which efforts my teacher supported and did not, and learned a little bit of his own thinking process which I usually found, in the end, surprisingly accurate even when we disagreed with him.

I’m no expert but when an organization passes my muster, like www.Kiva.org for micro-banking, I dare say it’s usually pretty good.

Well I found a great way to help contribute to the translation of enlightenment texts — http://www.daitangvietnam.com/index_en.htm. The TUE QUANG WISDOM LIGHT FOUNDATION has developed a computer program to help trasnlate Buddhist sutras into Vietnamese and I dare say it is so good, so cost effective and so quick that I had to contribute.

As they write on their website,

At the present time, we have completed the translation (Stage 3 of Program) of all sacred texts in the Chinese Tripitaka (over 70 million words in 9035 fascicles/files). All 2372 sutras in the Chinese Tripitaka have been translated by computer in 28 hours. Please read through the sample translations of the Amitabha Sutra, Medicine Buddha Sutra and the Diamond Sutra below. These short sutras have been translated in less than 10 seconds. Larger sutras such as Kinh Hoa Nghiêm-Avatamsaka Sutra (80 fascicles) in 11 minutes, Đại Trí Độ Luận-Great Prajnaparamita Sastra (100 fascicles) in 17 minutes and Đại Bát Nhã-Great Prajna Sutra (600 fascicles) in 50 minutes.  We are making corrections to these files and updating them with modern Buddhist and Chinese-Vietnamese terms.

The Masters and experts at the Buddhist Institutes in Việt Nam are ready to start  the editing and review of these files (Stage 4 of Program). The editing and review phase will occur over the next 10 years. It will only require a relatively modest budget of $300,000 USD for sponsoring about 50 editors in Việt Nam. 

If you’re looking for a wway to generate merit of the path, then consider donating to an effort like this. I encourage you to do so. There is a link on the page.

Here’s another one I like — for $30 giving light to some family. Geez! Only $30 to change a life. Think about what you normally spend $30 on … and what you do with light such that you tak eit for granted.

http://www.dlightdesign.org/

Now, double, triple or evn quadruple that for the dharma, because if you weren’t able to get in touch with cultivation knowledge of any kind – Taoism, Advaita, Buddhism, Kashmir Shaivism, yoga, Esoteric School, etc. – you’d be as lost as the billions of other people in the world following organized paths and just generating a bit of worldly merit for better behavior, that’s all. Think about. You only get the dharma because you help support and spread the dharma. I don’t care what path I support with my money as long as it helps lead other people to the ultimateend, is virtuous and does not promote desires. So if the Kashmir Saiivites wanted to build a temple in India, I’m all for it. Same for Taoists — if they have the real Tao  school. See? So nothing beats trasnlating the mother texts themselves.

Once again: http://www.daitangvietnam.com/index_en.htm.

Liao Fan’s Four Lessons, which have been copycatted dozens of times throughout the centuries (attesting to its great influence), accurately captures the real principles of how to change your fortune and destiny that the New Age Attraction magic crowd has no clue about.

Now it’s available on video — for FREE:

http://www.amitabha-gallery.org/Liaofan1.htm  (I like the introduction to Liao Fan, and you can see that he was, indeed, like Benjamin Franklin in his desire to study everything. True cultivation people are like that.)

http://www.amitabha-gallery.org/Liaofan2.htm

These were suggested to me in an email from James Chagula who found them on this page:

http://www.amitabha-gallery.org/movies.htm

Lao Tzu’s Treatise on the Response of the Tao is a related work you might read.

I started putting up some sample Fortune Readings for people in the news who I randomly chose to investigate since the news was so big. I just sit there, notice someone, and then out of curiosity compute the fortune and see what it has to say, wondering if it will spotlight the big events and issues in the year for that person.

That’s how you know if it will work, for you and I can only know the BIG things that happen in their lives that are big enough to make the news. As to all the other secret things and private, personal incidentals going on in their lives, we have no way to know about them or confirm them. The 3 pages of Karma Calculator readings per year will surely spotlight them, but only they can really know the truth of the information.

For instance Benazir Bhutto  returns to Pakistan and there’s a bomb attempt on her life. Curious, I compute the fortune and there it is – the shocking, frightening affair would quickly settle down and everything will be alright. "In such a year, an official may suffer an evil and treacherous attack, and a scholar has a sign of confusion at first, but success later. A commoner may have lawsuits and loss. An old person will face a life-threatening crisis, and a child will be frightened. As for the seven days, that is the time limit." Yep- (1) treacherous attack on her life, (2) lawsuit she’s getting over (3) life threatening, (4) quickly settles down.

Last week impeachment proceedings were started against Dick Cheney. Let’s see if it’s there in the fortune …"The inferior man is like purslain: he is firmly determined to get rid of him." Yep, those who hate Cheney want to get rid of him, but if Cheney follows the Karma Calculator advice those efforts will come to naught.

Joseph Estrada, ex-President of the Philippines, is arrested for corruption and sentenced to life Imprisonment.. Let’s see if that’s there — yep!  "He may even be imprisoned and sentenced, and there is no hope for him to enjoy a glorious and happy life." That’s rare for the President of a country, and yet the Karma Calculator said it would be so. Amazing. It even talks about his character flaws that came out during the trial and caused his downfall — indulgences and greed. Hmmmmm. This thing is an unbiased, third party, not-to-be-bribed moral commentator. If it says it then it says it — family argument settled.

Britney Spears is in the news, losing her children for her behavior in the home and being publicly reprimanded: "a commoner is not kind at home, and often receives slanders and reproaches." The fortune says the problem for her is lack of obedience (and not believing/listening to what people tell her). The poems, which offer advice for changing the fortune, tell her to stop spending her time in foolish pursuits/activities and exhaust herself to gain nothing. Sounds pretty accurate from what I’m reading in the press as to what she’s spending her time doing. If she followed the advice in the three poems then YES SHE WOULD HAVE CHANGED HER FORTUNE DRAMATICALLY and she still has that chance.

That’s why you want a Karma Calculator Fortune because it tells you how to change your fortune and avoid all this heartache and grief. For Cheney it already gave him the strategy to use. For Britney it tells her she should change her behavior for this year.

Let’s see … Paris Hilton went to jail this year over driving with an expired license. It says she’s frightened to death this year (yes, the prospect of jail did frighten her and she stopped eating in jail because she was frightened people would take pictures of her). So that’s one of the big issues to face this year – a big fright. Says she has no vitality – she stopped eating in jail so her sentence was initially cut short. Says she wins the trust of the townspeople, so she is still popular. Says she will receive "punshment" – in  Chinese culture that means imprisonment and nothing else, and that is what happened this year. Good hit for a socialite!

If she was married it would have been the husband, too. Says relatives and neighbors  will have disasters also, and it seems they’re quite a few of her friends headed for jail this year or other difficult situations as well. As to closer internal family situations and circumstances, we have no idea and no way to tell (except by looking at the Karma Calculator). Says the big problem she suffers from  is lack of self-examination, and with self-examination she could have avoided the whole thing. Good advice for a young girl.

The Karma Calculator is great because unlike other fate forecasting methods, it not only tells you the EVENTS to expect every year, but how to avoid  them or change them. What other method can do that? Actually, we’re all dying to know just that sort of advice to create a better life. We want to know the future, we want to know how to control  it. In these cases I’m citing, I’m just going over the big picture. there are far more details than that, but what do you do in 2 sentences or so…

The Karma Calculatoris designed with  self-cultivation in mind as you are not only told your future, but are told, as a mentor would tell you, how to cultivate yourself ethically and morally….and for financial, family, material, prosperity success as well – even fame if you want it.  You’re also told various strategies as to what to do to handle certain issues, circumstances, challenges, problems, difficulties that arise during the year — good or bad.

It’s a fortune telling system with built-in self-cultivation and self-accomplishment, or life enjoyment advice. If I had only had this when I was younger. As one of the clients wrote me:

"What’s most exciting to me is how I can now see how to handle situations that will come up in my future.  The readings give great advice about what I should do when I have legal troubles, and how to handle situations in my business, and my relationships with family.  Of course I’m excited about the fact that it tells me that the next two years will be VERY good financial years for me, but the most exciting part of the whole thing is that I now feel like I have a reference resource for my future. It’s as if I can now see the choices that will "work" best for me."

Let me check what the fortune said when inexperienced, small time governor Bill Clinton won his first presidency: "He may become famous without taking the imperial examinations, or receive promotion without writing a single word. He may even preside over the writing of the country’s history and institute laws. He has the absolute power to mete out punishments and rewards."

These are writings from 1,000 years ago, and he DID win a position where he would be making history (not writing it like a scholar), writing laws, and be the absolute power in country. Pretty good for an ancient secret Karma Calculator from one thousand years ago, isn’t it?

You can only find it here, only one place in the world where it’s available, at www.KarmaCalculator.com. The site is not 100% done, but   you can see samples of the types of Karma Calculator Fortunes you will get at:

KarmaCalculator.com/sample-readings.html

How to read a report can be found at:

KarmaCalculator.com/chinese-astrology-horoscopes.html     and    

KarmaCalculator.com/karma-calculator-explanation.htm

Ready?

1. Smart

2. Intelligent

3. Brilliant

4. Genius

5. Simple

Yes, #5 was simple. In other words, WISDOM.

Wisdom thinking means simple thinking, globular thinking of causes and effects. It entails understanding that all events have a cause and effect relationship – blowback – and that events run their course via principles well catalogued by Taoism.  For instance, principles such as  yin turns into yang and yang into yin at extremes. That subsidizing or incentivizing  or advertising behavior produces more of it. 

There are all sorts of wisdom principles I could discuss like this, but all I wanted to do is make you understand that the highest wisdom involves simplicity. The I-Ching, for instance, is said to encode the highest knowledge of Chinese culture in its simple structure. As my teacher always pointed  out, the more advanced a civilization, the simpler its description of knowledge and wisdom.

And speaking of the I-Ching, I’m almost done with the new Karma Calculator fortune program, and wanted to see what it said about Al Gore since he won a Nobel Prize. Gore’s been pretty much ignored for the last several years, and I wanted to see if the Karma Calculator had any hints of worldwide recognition that comes with the Nobel Prize. I was just curious…it doesn’t tell everything but at times it reveals LOTS.

Well one section of the reading does indicate that Gore would receive some type of fantastic reward or recognition – an "imperial decree from heaven" delivered by a phoenix no less (the highest type of  fame and recognition).  So a 1000 year  old book used the words and imagery known in its time to correctly indicate  the highest type of recognition in the land for Gore for 2007. It also suggests he’s working hard on his image this year, or something else to get rid of blemishes.

Here’s a small excerpt from the full Al Gore  Karma Calculator fortune for the year, which runs about 3-4 pages, and you can see the I-Ching’s symbology for great recognition that came through the Nobel Prize.

As the Chinese maintain and as has been proved once again, the I-Ching does embody the height of simplicity and wisdom. You’ll have to wait till later to see the rest of these fortunes…

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Ha ha ha … it’s several hours later and someone just told me that the symbology of the burning fish represents global warming. So Gore is acting very holy or sanctimonious (like a monk) pointing out to future generations (the child) that the oceans are warming (the burning fish) but it’s not too late yet.

I’m just laughing and laughing and laughing because when I first posted this hours ago I didn’t realize what that sentence referred to, and now I know. That’s the metaphoric language of the I-Ching for you. Its simplicity has encoded the highest wisdom for explaining Gore’s fortune … and this is from nearly a thousand years ago. Of course this is just a tiny section of the Karma Calculator reading for this year of his life, whereas other sections reveal  lots of details in more direct language, but I didn’t want to publicly reveal them. As long as you have a fairly accurate birth time (to within two hours), you can have a Karma Calculator reading calculated.

Every year people ask me to compute this for them as it is so accurate telling them the gist of the year — marriage, money, sickness, promotion, whatever. If you have a lawsuit, it even tells you the sounds in the name of the lawyer that will help you, or the days where you can make money, or whether the woman is the right one to marry.

You’ll have to wait to hear more. The algorithm is done, but we’re working on the formatting and editing the translations. We used multiple translators over the years — I’m guessing it cost past $10,000 to get the two Iching books translated and edited for this. They are special Iching numerology books that don’t appear in English, and are usually combined with Tzu (Zi) Wei astologoy, but this is totally a numerological forecast. And accurate it is.

Normally a Vedic astrologer will charge people $200-250 for a 3 year reading, but we’ll be able to print out out 5 year, 10 year, 20 year, 30 year and 60 year year readings! It will be nice to spy on the fortunes of Presidents, Actors and Actresses and Sports stars in the news and to see that what they are going through is all in their fortune.

Coming soon … a project I swore I’d do.  .

Another neat astrocartography graph I just found is found at http://www.alphee.com/air_reading/astro_map/astro_mapping.htm and takes several days to produce (usually 3 days). It’s done by computing 3000 relocated natal charts, in conjunction with neural network algorithms, to find "hot spots" for various influence potentials you’re seeking to experience in life.

While Julian can search the world and tell you which spots will produce beneficial results of what type  for how long, and can tell you everything about how you will experience life in a new location (highly recommend before you move or are about to relocate to a new job or area…after all, before you’re ready to buy a $300K house in a new area, wouldn’t you want to know a little bit more?), this chart can give you the static potential of an area. Obviously you’d want to get the static chart, and then probe for more info based on Julian’s readings.

That’s one way to combine the results of esoteric sciences.